Talk:Swan River (Western Australia)

Burswood Island

during the 1830-1860 river transport was heavly used between the perth and guildford there was a channel/canal cut through the area known a burswood. It was filled in completely with the city of perth rubish tip (now the site of Burswood Casino). Unfortunately i dont have any further details yet but when i get the opportunity i'll see whats available. if anyone else knows of or finds anything further maybe we can get enough accurate information to include it within the page Gnangarra 10:05, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

*Ive just created the heading interaction with man which covers this subject I wrote the piece outside of wikipedia and copied into place. I havent put any links within the text yet but will in about a week once people have had the opportunity to adjust and comment on the text. Gnangarra 14:51, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

There's a librarian at Mines Dept ( I think ) who did research on the rubbish tip who might know about it, he used to work at battye, his name escapes me despite his memorable character.User:SatuSuro 10:08, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

• You might want to review this as it's got some good stuff. -- —Moondyne 13:28, 6 October 2005 (UTC) That file seems to have been moved overnight - wierd! Instead try this and click on two Lloyd Margetts articles -- —Moondyne 00:52, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

• also this and particularly this -- —Moondyne 13:54, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

• how would someone approach the maritime museum as they have an extensive collection of information including maps on the various canal dug along the swan river Gnangarra

• I have no idea - you can only ask. -- —Moondyne 23:58, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

• thanks for the information Gnangarra ≡Talk

Bridges

Is there any need for further photos of the bridges. i have a structual photo of the fremantle traffic bridge that may be useful what do you think Gnangarra 10:05, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

• I added a gallery, so any more photos you've got can go in there. -- —Moondyne 10:11, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

that was quick i was still uploading the picture delete it from the page if you dont like itGnangarra

Images

Yesterday I was thrilled when this family of swans swam ashore in front of me. I have added it to Image Gallery of the article, but if anyone can find a better use for the photo I would be most pleased. cheers Nachoman-au 03:16, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

• Brilliant image! I've moved it to the top of the article - if anything sums up the Swan River, it's this photo. - Gobeirne 18:32, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Bessie Rischbieth's protest

The article gave the date of Bessie Rischbieth's protest as 14 March 1967 but she died on 13 March so that can't have been right. I have found cites for the year but no date. Can any one else help with more precision? Thanks--Matilda ^talk 00:45, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

I believe that was my edit which from memory came out of George Seddon's book - I'm not blaming him BTW! I'll dig it out in the next day or so and fix accordingly. —Moondyne 01:04, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Comon Guys

Lets fix this article up its really a disgrace to be perfectly honest shouldnt be too hard beacuse there is lots of infomation around lets get this article up and running —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdavies 965 (talk • contribs) 08:25, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Please use spell check if thats the case - and read up very carefully about working on articles! SatuSuro 08:44, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

More of draft test then anything else thanks, :) but i think the Intro needs to much longer, also the North-South has almost no use, at least at the present and section needs to be added on the river polution levels and among others but there the main things for now —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdavies 965 (talk • contribs) 08:49, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Also a wildlife section is needed --Mdavies 965 (talk) 08:53, 12 March 2008 (UTC) Matthew

Right now who opposses this

I don't see why the current image is so favoured by one editor in particular (or should I say dictator), it's ugly, the quality is fairly average, and it's DATED. It's about 8 years old! This current image is beautiful, look at the sunset, it shows the structure of the river, and the skyline is not a focal point, although it does feature in the background and actually LOOKS like the Perth skyline looks today. I don't want to hear all this "wiki isn't a tourist brochure, it's an encyclopaedia" nonsense, because that doesn't mean the images have to be sterile and flippin' UGLY. You don't see ugly images on the European, American or Asian geographic pages. If I have less than 4 opposes then it looks like the image I have uploaded will become the new lead image. 121.220.140.49 (talk) 10:16, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Oppose (or, if you prefer, Opposse) seems to be a snap of a stick Crusoe8181 (talk) 10:52, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

The IP can be ignored as they're a banned editor (User:Ashton 29) who uses sock puppets and IPs to bypass the block. Bidgee (talk) 11:59, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

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  recent alternative

• Neither of the two images are particularly suited to the infobox. The first is, as you say, quite outdated, and the second is poorly-lit and is about 60% sky. We do have some quite nice panoramas, but, again, none are particularly suited to the infobox. If we're voting, I'd be in favour of a decent map or a satellite image—something along the lines of a cropped File:Swan River.jpg. The river needs to be emphasised, rather than the skyline. (Or how about File:ARG train Swan River Guildford.jpg? Everyone loves trains.) IgnorantArmies 11:50, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 1 September 2013

The name Swan River (Swane Rivier)was not provided by De Vlamingh. He had intended to name it Witsen River after Nicolaes Witsen. The name Swan River, however, appeared in the descriptive text accompanying the map Zuyd Landt (South Land) by Victor Victorszoon. The name stuck. The charts made by De Vlamingh, referred to by Witsen in his 1705 publication: Noord en Oost Tartrye, have been lost. Reference: Playford, Phillip.1998, Voyage of Discovery To Terra Australia, by Willem De Vlamingh in 1696-97, The Western Australian Museum. pg 42. 58.84.153.58 (talk) 08:14, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Not done: Please provide the text you would like to add and say where you'd like it inserted. Reactivate the request when you have done this. Thanks, Celestra (talk) 15:02, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 6 March 2014

Replace introduction with the following:

The Swan River is a river in the south west of Western Australia. Its Aboriginal Noongar name is the Derbarl Yerrigan.

 Done - Thanks for including the reference. - Arjayay (talk) 15:32, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

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Adding mapframe

The Kartographer extension is now available. It still seems to have a few problems though. For example, you can plot roads as geolines, but not rivers it seems.

However, once these issues are resolved, are there any objections to replacing the current map of the Swan River with a mapframe from that extension showing the Swan River?

The data for that mapframe comes from the OSM database (so it’s always current), it opens into a slippy map, and it looks nicer IMO than the png that is currently shown.

Below are two roughly equivalent examples, using XML syntax and maplink template syntax. XML supports wikidata queries, which might be nicer to use than manually listing tributaries to the Swan River here.

The current map

Betterkeks (talk) 01:53, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

length/basin size

length and basin size (72/121000) does not match wikidata size (360/141000)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greg.collver (talk • contribs) 16:32, 3 October 2019 (UTC)